To think 19 isn't too cold for heating

[coffeeforone]

DH is constantly turning the heating up saying he feels cold. Any more than 19 and I get too warm, but he would prefer 22, night and day. I only wear leggings and a t/shirt, he will wear a couple of layers and still complain. We use a summer duvet, we have it set at 20.5 as the compromise but neither of us are comfortable with that temp. What temp do you think is reasonable. It's a new build that retains heat very well.

I don't like a warm bedroom at night.

I know it's recommended for small children and babies, but I grew up in a home with no central heating.
I feel stuffy and claustrophibic sleeping in a warm room.
No heating at all from 9pm onwards. A cosy bed with lots of layers, can be as cold as it likes once I am in my nest!

Compromise at 20 c

I keep our bedroom at a steady 25 day and night. (Much to HD's disgust) I cosleep with my baby and only a sheet on the bed though.
Bedroom is around 21 usually when we have the duvet on.
I'd be happy sleeping in the room at 28c though. I love the warm!

DH not HD! 🙈

Ours is set to 18, oil heating so watch the usage very carefully

Separate duvets, him a winter one, you a summer one?

Just looked at our gro-egg; it's 24 bang on now and I'm only just comfortably warm.

I'm a radiator, I have quite literally been sat in the middle of a group of people who have all pressed their cold hands on my bare skin to warm up (that gets some quite odd looks )
I don't have CH, I don't really need it as I have dogs who want to sit on me if I stay still for more than 30 seconds. I do have a couple of plug in electric radiators on wheels, mostly for people visiting.
At 20c at home, I'm wearing only a strappy nighty or a thin-tshirt type dress, and not wanting to do anything strenuous. At 25c the curtains are closed, the fans are on, and I'm sleeping on a cooling mat designed for GSDs because it's the middle of summer and I feel like I'm dying!
Currently it's 17c and I'm sleeping under a thin cotton bedspread, as the 4.5 tog duvet is too warm, and I had the window open last night.
That being said, I cannot stand being sat in a draught at work as it makes me ache!

Going by the never-ending heating and aircon wars at work (2-300 people open plan office, a job where you are pretty much stuck at your desk, and I'm the one who has to try and negotiate a compromise) excluding those with medical conditions and the self proclaimed exercise obsessives, its a pretty clear trend that those who are underweight feel cold at 25c, and those who are overweight (myself included) feel too warm at 22c.
Though I do have to stop myself from banging my head on my desk when someone complains it's cold in winter when they're stood in front of me in a short sleeved cropped top, mini skirt, and ballet flats, or too warm in summer with big knee high boots, jeans, and a long sleeved roll-neck chunky jumper...

Our thermostat is set to 18 degrees in the winter daytimes and 10 degrees at night. I usually wear a t shirt and jeans/ bottoms round the house and nothing at all at night. I tend to open the window at night though and have half my body out of the duvet, I overheat very easily.

I can't wear jumpers indoors, I have a few but they only come out if I'm going to be outdoors for a long time. It's a shame actually, I love woolly hats but just get too hot and sweaty in them.

16.5 in the daytime and 15 at night here. Sounds freezing but it’s just right for me.. Prefer to retain extra warmth with jumpers and fluffy socks. Any more than 16ish at night and I find it too warm to sleep..

We have the heating on for a few hours in the evenings, set to 18 in the rest of the house and 20 in the kitchen.

Tbh I'd be cold at 22 degrees too, so it makes no odds. I wear teddy bear fleece jumpers at home, in bed and same fleece blankets on the sofa...
I'm overweight, but sadly not feeling the benefit.

16/18 for the house but I put on the fire in the living room in the evening when we're sitting still x

Overnight it's set to 13 but will only kick in if it's a very cold evening

Ours is anything between 21 and 24. If it drops below 20 we feel chilly.

Depends what you are doing. Base temperature here is around 18 degrees, but lower during the day, and warmer in the morning and evenings. If cold I wrap myself in a blanket or up the thermostat if sitting around and watching tv.

However the duvet is a 10.5 tog one

These threads always get me annoyed 🙄😄

The reliability of your thermostat depends on it’s type, accuracy, and placement in the house.

Mine can say 22 degrees in the hall, but it’s freezing in the living room. The hall is in the middle of three rooms with radiators nearby, and heat often pumping out of the oven too. So in the hall it may be 22 but it’s probably 18 elsewhere.

How you experience cold also depends on your age, circulation, and frankly your weight.

So there are too many variables to compare online. Your thermostat might say 16 or 22 but it doesn’t mean that’s the ACTUAL temperature of the room you are in. And your experience of an air temperature will not be the same as another person’s.

I’d not be able to get out of bed for cold if 16 degrees was on my thermostat, but other people claim they never heat beyond this. All relative [although I privately believe the 16 degree people’s thermostats are wrong]

17-19 here is fine. Over that is roasting. High ceilings old house. Over night we turn it off and house temps dip to 15c.

It's set to 18 in the baby's room, but who knows what temperature that makes it in the rest of the house... I'm comfortable though, and if I get chilly I can just stick a jumper on or drag a blanket over me. I'd rather me be too cold than my husband be too warm.

(^ because of the aforementioned ease of adding jumper and blankets, not because I think his needs should come above mine, obviously)

. I'm comfortable though, and if I get chilly I can just stick a jumper on or drag a blanket over me. I'd rather me be too cold than my husband be too warm.

I think the challenge for compromising comes when the cold person already has extra layers on and is still cold. I remember wearing so many layers at uni that I couldn't bend my arm. I was still cold.

I have my thermostat set at 19 on an evening and at 13 overnight although it never drops lower than 16. I have a nest thermostat so it automatically switches off when the house is empty and back on when someone comes home. Semi detached well insulated house

no heating at night and the heating on gets put on when it reaches 15, even at that it only gets put to 17.

We keep a thermometer in the lounge. I've recently moved it lower under the TV with the DVD player rather than over the fireplace and it feels more accurate with how my body feels.

18oC is OK if I'm active in the daytime and already warm. If I've come in cold from outside, I need extra heat to warm me up. Adding more and more layers doesn't do any good if my body is conserving its heat to begin with as there's not enough heat to trap.

20oC when sedentary in the evening. We have a blanket each in the lounge.

If my nose is cold, I really struggle to warm up.

When 8m pg, I was happy sitting around half-dressed at a toasty 15oC, but there was 50% more of me than usual

Ours is set to 17. It's an old house and I don't think it would actually reach higher. It comes on for an hour in morning and between 4 and 10 in evening. Id like the house a bit warmer but houses in the 20s make me feel really hot

I have MS and I'm always boiling. I don't put my heating on in my room at all. When my DC is cold he puts the heating on in his room. We don't really use the rest of the house much.

I'm currently naked with a sheet over me.